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ONLINE SURVEY EXPERTS SurveyMonkey has moved to Dublin, creating 50 local jobs.
The online questionnaire platform is moving its international team from Lisbon to Ireland, as well as hiring 50 people.
The company, founded in 1999, gathers feedback for global clients using online and mobile platforms. It is used by 99 per cent of the Fortune 500, academic institutions, soccer leagues and other firms for market research, customer satisfaction surveys and employee performance reviews.
The new positions are in a number of sectors, including account management and customer support. Recruitment has started and the jobs can be viewed on its careers website.
Minister Richard Bruton welcomed the announcement, noting that ‘born-on-the-internet’ companies are attracted to Ireland.
“The convergence of language talent, technology know-how and cultural savvy makes Dublin the ideal base from which we can meet the needs of our international customers,” said SurveyMonkey’s Luis Franco.
Bruton added that Dublin could “now claim with justification to be the internet capital of Europe”.
“SurveyMonkey is one of a number of companies from Silicon Valley that have chosen to locate a strategic part of their international operations in Dublin,” noted IDA Ireland CEO Barry O’Leary.
The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto and employs 275 people worldwide.
Separately, Minister Pat Rabbitte announced the creation of 16 full-time positions at Irish firm Agile Networks.
The jobs will be based at Blanchardstown. The company achieved a €2.3 million turnover in its first year – 2011.
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Anyone know what kind of moolah this company pays? There are no details on the link.
While this is great news that we’re attracting more big tech companies, unfortunately most of these jobs like every other big tech company that comes here are going to be multi lingual which means they’ll be filled by people moving here to work.
People who learn English as a second language (possibly along with a third) as kids in school.
It’s beyond time our government instigated a mandatory foreign language program in primary schools.
10s of thousands of people live in Dublin that speak many different languages. These are tax paying jobs. Good for the economy.
Thousands of Irish people speak foreign languages fluently.
OU812: while this is great news but….. you are assuming you know their recruitment plan. Unless you do can you can you not just accept it as good news. It 50 jobs. Even if 10 go to “Irish” it ten more employed.
In the eyes of any growing or established company in the US we are a small populated country. Having access to a diverse pool of talent when they set up here is important.
As somebody mentioned earlier these companies will have nice wage bills that will be taxed & according to the Department of Finance every multinational that sets up here creates at least one job in a different sector of the economy.
This is good news.
Promoting Arabic, Russian, Chinese and German, in early secondary school cycle, as foreign language alternatives for student’s career development, would be a positive move for Dept of Ed IMO.
Lucrative careers as International traders awaits the Irish youngster who masters one or all of Arabic, Chinese, Russian and German, especially in Gulf States.
Agreed Rory. Maybe if they took Irish off the mandatory curriculum our students could focus more on a foreign language.
If the careers for those who speak these languages are so lucrative it would be difficult to fill any teaching posts with suitable candidates given the relatively low rates of pay.
Actually kids who attend Gaelic-speaking schools are not just (predictably) better at Irish but also study more and are better at foreign languages (including English btw).
What we need is to make ALL primary education through Irish and then we’ll be as multilingual as our continental peers.
Ho ho, time for the higher corporation tax proponents to come in with disapproval.
Locating in Ireland is not always because of the lower CT tax. Why locate in Lisbon first or consider London as a location when Ireland has a lower CT than both countries.
Did Dublin win these jobs over London, or did they open an office in London also?
Read the second paragraph again :)
Survey monkey should do well in Dublin. The place is full of primates as it is!!!!
The Portuguese must be delighted at this news.
The crusade led by US congressmen against Apple and Irelands tax laws seems to have had quite a positive effect on jobs creation here lately.
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